Muslim Women and Pious Learning in Denmark - Hardcover

by Maria Lindebæk Schmidt Lyngsøe (Author)

This book shows that Danish Muslim women engage in Islamic educational activities as teachers and students as a way to continuously become pious, emphasizing the influence of both this- and otherworldly relations on this becoming.

Author Biography

Maria Lindebæk Schmidt Lyngsøe, PhD in the Study of Religions, is a researcher at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. Her main research field is Muslim life in contemporary Scandinavia.